Figure toy.



1. CHRAPLA,

FI'GURE TOY.`

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9.19m.

3,53*?9. Patented Jan. 8,1918,

Y JOSEPF CHRAPLA, OF MARTIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

FIGURE TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Iatented Jan. 8, 1918.

Application led June 9, 1917. Serial No. 173,686.

To all whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, Josrrr CHRAPLA, a subject of the Emperor of Austria,resident of Martin, county of Fayette, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Figure Toys, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n toys, and particularly totypes in which movable figures are employed, thereby per mitting thesame to be placed in any desired formation.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a plurality offigures, representative of different nationalities as engaged inwarfare, the same being distinguished by figural modifications and alsoby colors in any desired manner.

Another object is to provide toys representative of soldiers withmovable bases, the same being so arranged as to hold the figure in anupright position, but allowing of any desired interchange of the gures.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel design,construction and combination of parts hereafter described and shown inthe accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure,and in which Figure 1 is a view illustrative of a group of figures andthe manner in which a game may be played with the same.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showin a single figure arranged upon anindivi ual support.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view, looking from the lower side ofthe platform upon which the figure is secured, and

Fig. l is a perspective view of the lower or base sustaining elements,one of which has been removed.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, Fig. 1 represents acertain formation of the toy figures 10, mounted uponl their pedestals11, and in such position that as the projectiles 12 are thrown forward,the projectile will make contact with certain of the figures, the gamebeing to knock down as many as possible.

The vfigures 10 are simulative of soldiers, being garbed so as torepresent the same, and provided with guns 13, each of the figures beingfirmly attached to pedestals 11, on the lower side of which are engagedcross bars 16, the same extending from the lower surface and providedwith projecting pins 17, the projections formed by the cross-bars actingas tenons adapted to be received in the openings 2O formed betweenadjacent blocks 21, each of which is independent and has. upon twoadjacent sides extensions 22, while the main portion of the blocks isprovided with openings 23, receptive of the pins 17.

Four of the blocks 21 are used with each of the platforms, each beingformed in parallelograms so as to rest upon the lower surface of theplatform 11 when in an upright position, the tenons 16 entering theopenings 20 between the blocks so that the pins 17 will engage in theholes 23, thereby sustaining the figures on the platform in an uprightposition, the blocks being assembled by the user as desired.

While the figures 10 may be made of any preferred material, as wood orthe like, as may also the platform 11, the blocks 21 are preferably madeof lead or some heavy material, so as to hold the figure relativelyfirmly in an upright position, and yet permit the grouping of thefigures in any desired manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a game played with toys, the combination with a plurality offigures representative of soldiers and platforms upon which said figuresare secured, of raised bars crossing each other centrally on the lowersides of said platforms, and a plurality of relatively heavy platesengageable with said raised bars.

2. In a game played with toys, the combination with a. plurality offigures simulative of soldiers and rectangular platforms upon which saidgures are rigidly engaged, of cruciform extensions formed on the lowersides of said platforms, heavy rectangular blocks fitted to the squareedges of said platform and said cruciform extensions, and means wherebysaid blocks are secured to said platform,

3. In a toy, the combination With a iguralf representation of a soldier,and a platform upon which said figure is rigidly engaged in an uprightposition, of bars crossing each other at right angles disposed on thelower side of said platform, said bars having pins extending therefromat right angles thereto,

and parallel with said platform, and a plu- Copies of this patent may beobtained for ve ,cents each, by addressing the Washington, I). C. Y

rality of heavy blocks engageable with Said pins and `said barsWherebysaid platform may be held in a rigid position.

lIn testimony whereof have affixed my signature.

J OSEPF CHRAPLA.

Commissioner of Patents,

